J&T Express used its breakthrough Leg 2 triumph as a jumping board to second spot in the latest PBA 3x3 Season 2 Second Conference team standings.
The Express, who finally broke the stranglehold of TNT with a pulsating 21-19 finals win last Sunday at Robinsons Malabon, jacked up their tally to 150 tour points overall to move three places up.
Despite settling for runner-up honors, the Leg 1 winners Tropang Giga held on to pole position with their 180-point aggregate.
Behind TNT and J&T were Barangay Ginebra (130) and Cavitex Braves (130), who stayed at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively, on the strength of their semifinal stints in the Malabon hostilities.
Platinum Karaoke went down three spots to fifth overall with 125 points, its fall hastened by a meager sixth place finish in Leg 2 after its silver medal in Leg 1.
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Terrafirma 3x3, buoyed by its playoffs run over the weekend, leapfrogged to No. 6 with 75 points coming from ninth in the opening leg.
Purefoods TJ Titans matched the Dyip's 75-point card to remain at No. 7 followed by Pioneer Elasto Seal, another three-place jumper, with 66.
San Miguel Beer, with 61, fell from sixth to ninth after missing the quarterfinals of Leg 2 while Blackwater Red President (38) slipped to 10th.
Languishing outside the Magic 10 were struggling Meralco 3x3 (38) and NorthPort (30), which both failed to get past the pool stage in the first two legs of the mid-season conference. (OL)
